Lit. a plover bargeboard. Also written éûj, lit. a
trianglular shape. A dormer gable or a dormer bargeboard, or both combined. A
dormer bargeboard found on triangular shaped dormers added directly to the slope
of a gabled roof surface. They are characterized by strong concave curves. Such
dormers have neither windows nor any ventilating capacity, but serve only a decorative
purpose.
*Aori hafu áDj is
an almost obsolete term for chidori hafu. Another term, suehafu
j meaning an installed or especially positioned dormer bargeboard is sometimes
used. Chidori hafu are also found on castle towers *tenshukaku
Vçt and castle turrets *yagura
E. Example: Kibitsu Jinja *Honden gõÃ_Ð{a (1425), Okayama prefecture